Alternative uses for Nalgene bottles

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Red Nalgene - First aid kit,
Clear Nalgene - Water
Yellow Nalgene - Toilet kit
Green Nalgene - Dry food, (raw cocoa, beans, bisquick, macaroni,etc.)
Blue Nalgene - food soaker, Beans, macaroni
Orange Nalgene - Repair kit
Purple Nalene - Survival kit.
Yes it is heavy, and I do carry more than this in other containers if I am going for long periods of time, but Nalgene does not puncture from the inside out, and will float a pack, even if it gets dumped in a river. So, this is what I bring on a canoe trip.
 
My alternate use is as a food container.
When I go canoe camping, I like to carry potato flakes, oatmeal, maybe MH eggs and bacon, etc.

Usually if I have one it just has water in it.
 
Cancer + shrinking penor = Throwing out all Lexan/marked #7 recyclable containers in the trash and out the house asap. No alternative uses other than landfill.

Learning this just now after almost 2 decades of Lexan use. Gee thanks Nalgene...
 
I use a couple when I go canyoning to hold stuff that CANT get wet (firekit, mobile, wallet, GPS, spare map, electronic car keys etc, etc) in my experience the "not so" dry bags arent worth a pinch of goats crap when your squeezing your pack through tunnels etc. Nalgenes are good to go and I can still fit a set of P2 thermal underwear in a 1L bottle.

Less critical gear just gets double ziplock bagged (thick HD bags) with the air squeezed out.
 
ajcz said:
i really would like to know what C8 is. wanna enlighten me?
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You can google the term. It's a chemical used in the production of Teflon.
I lived near the plant all those years and it leached in the water table. I'm one of about 70,000 thats been affected.
 
I'm almost POSITIVE in the mid 80's I made a water pipe out of one of those :eek:
Talk about a carcinogenic assault........
 
I live in the desert :cool:. Unless you get plenty of water here per day, you die. :(

For that reason, I'm shifting my Lexan canteens to survival/emergency duty. I'm replacing the ones that my (always pregnant :D) wife and small kids drink out of regularly with metal canteens, but am keeping the Lexan ones around--and full of water--in case the water supply goes out. I figure that if my car breaks down and the air temperature is 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade :eek: , a trace amount of some mildly-bad-for-you solvent is probably the least of my worries. So, I figure lexan canteens have a place in the grand scheme of things, still.

Or, I guess I could sell them to people who are aware of the concerns with BPA, but are a little less concerned about such things, and use the cash to buy stainless. I figure we'd both benefit from that arrangement, and in the manner in which we'd each prefer.
 
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